An investigation into why some Fairfax County Public Schools were late to notify students they had received National Merit commendations found the delays were not intentional, the school system's superintendent reported Wednesday.

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STAUNTON - Walking through the halls of Elk Hill School, you will see the word "Love" painted on one of the walls. It seems like the appropriate message for what this school offers its students. "Every student comes here with some sort of trauma, some sort of either behavioral disability or an emotional disability," said Jason Hite, head of the Staunton school.

BRIDGEWATER - Family and Consumer Science students at Turner Ashby High School put their skills to the test in an effort to assist the area's unsheltered community.

Fourteen books, including two by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, will be "excluded" from Spotsylvania County school libraries, superintendent Mark Taylor has decided. Taylor announced his decision in a memo dated March 28 and addressed to Maria Ramadane and Laurie Gallup, the director and assistant director of teaching and learning for the school division.

A $1.1 million lawsuit against the Loudoun Public Schools board and former Virginia Superintendent Jillian Ballow alleges a special education sophomore student was removed from Loudoun County High School in Leesburg for 113 days last year due to purportedly false claims that he groped a female student and walked around school with a baseball bat.

YORK COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) - The York County School Division has received major recognition for its work with military-connected students.

WOODSTOCK - Many students of the Shenandoah County Public Schools' southern campus will be transferred to different schools this fall. To better use classroom space in the 2023-24 school year, school division officials plan to relocate the Massanutten Regional Governor's School at Triplett Tech in Mount Jackson to Mountain View High School in Quicksburg.

As more Virginians pivot from the traditional path of going to college and earning a degree, state and federal policymakers are considering expanding government programs designed to encourage college enrollment to cover training for middle-skilled positions in high demand. Two of Virginia's congressional representatives - Reps.

VIRGINIA BEACH - School officials searched a Bayside High School student's backpack Wednesday morning and found a loaded handgun. Kavonta Hawkins, 18, was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm on school grounds and receipt of a stolen firearm.